The next Japanese Splatfest in Splatoon 2 will take place next weekend, Nintendo has announced.
This event pits flowers up against dangos (a Japanese dumpling). frozenpandaman, who knows this much better than myself, explains the significance:
Sometimes You is planning another game for Switch. According to a listing on the North American eShop, Alteric will be available on March 30.
Alteric is a 2D platformer, in which your soul takes the form of light energy that is trapped in the alien space between two worlds. We have an official overview and a trailer below.
This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta take a look at Kirby Star Allies with some new levels and a boss fight in co-op. Check out the full episode below.
As things stand now, Payday 2 has no voice communication option on Switch. That’s a rather important deal given how integral communicating with other players is to the experience.
For its part, Starbreeze Studios does hope to offer voice chat in the future. A spokesperson told Kotaku:
During a live stream today, SEGA debuted the first English footage from the newly-announced localization of Shining Resonance Refrain. Watch an hour of gameplay below.
Luigi’s Balloon World in Super Mario Odyssey was added this week through a free update. Unfortunately, some players are already exploiting a glitch by clipping through walls to place balloons in impossible-to-reach areas.
The most prevalent kingdom affected is New Donk City. However, other worlds have been impacted as well.
Yesterday, Slime-san received a substantial update on Switch that added the brand new Blackbird’s Kraken campaign and more. You can see some footage in the video below.
Update 2 (2/23): Super Mario Encyclopedia pre-orders are now 40% off on Amazon (thanks Tenakira). It’s also now up on Amazon Canada at 26% off.
Update: Amazon has this up for pre-order here.
Original (2/19): The Super Mario Encyclopedia originally debuted in Japan back in October 2015. Three years later, the book is finally getting an English localization.
Dark Horse is continuing its relationship with Nintendo by handling the Super Mario Encyclopedia for western publishing. It offers a look at almost every Super Mario game created, starting from Super Mario Bros. up through Super Mario 3D World. You can expect descriptions of enemies, level layouts, tricks and glitches, and guides for finding all the collectibles. There are a total of 256 pages.
Nintendo.com has updated, and is now allowing players to review Switch titles. Individual game pages should eventually show ratings out of five stars, and possibly the specific reviews as well. We’re not sure if every page has the functionality currently, but many do.
Take Zelda: Breath of the Wild, for instance. Scroll all the way down and you’ll see a section for the user reviews. If you’ve purchased the game under your Nintendo Account and have played at least two hours, you should be able to review it.
The stylized Old Man’s Journey is one of the new games on the Switch eShop this week. Recently, Broken Rules co-founder Clemens Scott shared some lovely concept art on Twitter. We’ve rounded up all of the images below.
To celebrate the launch of #OldMansJourney on the Switch, I dug out some level concept art pieces I did during the development. pic.twitter.com/cQgnZ5N7MW
— Clemens Scott (@Rostiger) February 21, 2018
I always liked this one. pic.twitter.com/msdv6NSsPj
— Clemens Scott (@Rostiger) February 21, 2018
However, most levels never were fleshed out that much and looked more like this: pic.twitter.com/nNbAr31Cvy
— Clemens Scott (@Rostiger) February 21, 2018
